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639 - 645 Lawrence Avenue West - Zoning By-Law

The area residents are looking to present a petition to registering our issues with the 639 - 645 Lawrence Avenue West - Zoning By-Law Amendment Application
This application proposes a four storey stacked townhouse building with 40 residential units and one level of underground parking at 639 - 645 Lawrence Avenue West. The
proposed building would have a height of 14 metres and a density of 1.73 times the area of the lot. A total of 40 parking spaces are proposed.
Having spoken with several City employees, it was suggested that as a neighbourhood we submit a petition that represents those that feel the development will have a negative effect on the quality of living in the area. Traffic, shading of yards, increased flooding risk and parking are some of the issues. With this petition we hope that Josh Colle will work with the residents to maintain our quality of life.

As of August 4th, 2013 the development is still under review by City Planning. The traffic study appears to not have been done, or is not available. If you have suggestions for other actions we can take please feel free to contact me through this petition. If you would prefer to sign a copy of the petition as opposed to online, please send me an e-mail through this petition (contact sponsor).

Sponsor

Please contact me if you have ideas or suggestions.
I am a resident of our neighbourhood, and happy to discuss anything you can suggest.

Discussion

Recent signatures

E, Canada

1 year agoComments:
With latest developments the new petition link is below:
http://www.change.org/petitions/councillor-josh-colle-toronto-city-council-and-city-planning-department-reject-the-application-for-stacked-townhouses-on-639-645-lawrence-ave-w-at-shermount-and-lawrence

Steven Gold, Canada

2 years agoComments:
Have met with councellor Colle on this development. Mainly traffic, height, garbage and privacy issues. It seems, and I hope, he is concerned about our feeling on this project.

Petition highlights

1 year agoComments:
With latest developments the new petition link is below:
http://www.change.org/petitions/councillor-josh-colle-toronto-city-council-and-city-planning-department-reject-the-application-for-stacked-townhouses-on-639-645-lawrence-ave-w-at-shermount-and-lawrence

Steven Gold, Canada

2 years agoComments:
Have met with councellor Colle on this development. Mainly traffic, height, garbage and privacy issues. It seems, and I hope, he is concerned about our feeling on this project.

Mendel Aronow, United States

2 years agoComments:
I am totally opposed to this development

Ari Blau, Canada

2 years agoComments:
Support restriction of zoning request

maria teresa aviado, Canada

2 years agoComments:
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nicoletta argyropoulos, Canada

2 years agoComments:
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jim argyropoulos, Canada

2 years agoComments:
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Martin & Adriana Mudron, Canada

2 years agoComments:
The issues we have with the proposed development on 639 - 645 Lawrence Avenue West:
- The proposed building reaches up 4 storeys high. The current zoning allows maximum 2 storeys build on the site. The proposed height is almost double of maximum allowed as per current plan. Since the apartment building located east of the site is only 2 storeys (3 levels; one of them partially underground) high, this newly proposed building should not go higher than that (especially since it’s further away from Allen Road).
- There are not enough parking spots (both for residents and visitors) in the proposed building. There should be minimum of 50 resident and 10 visitor parking spaces as per current North York By-Law. The insufficient number of parking spots will result in building’s residents and visitors parking on adjacent streets and blocking traffic. There are already issues with cars parked on those streets blocking garbage and snow removal trucks.
- There is no delivery/short-term parking planned for this development which will cause same issues as noted in previous paragraph
- Parking entrance/ramp should be located on Lawrence Avenue. There is no right/left turn in rush hours on Shermount from Lawrence that will cause issues for residents in the new building as well as for the residents on adjacent streets that try to cross Shermount Avenue. There is not enough space between Lawrence Ave and Fairholme Ave for safe entrance. The location of the ramp will also result in increased noise to adjacent houses.
- Refuse/Recycle building located outside adjacent to residential back yards will result in increased smell, noise and number of wild animals like racoons and squirrels - it should be located inside the main building.
- The proposed wooden structure with wooden floors will result in increased fire hazard (Example being Liberty Walk, same type of wooden stacked townhouse development, that was completely destroyed by fire in 2001). The new building should be required to have concrete floors and walls. City should not allow these cheapest wood structures with short life span to be built on such exposed and valuable locations close to the subway.
- Bell poles are currently located on the property. They should stay there and only be moved temporarily during the construction.
- There is not enough green space in the proposed development; so called “gardens” are tiled patios and there is almost no grass at all
- There is currently a number of big old trees on the property that cannot be replaced
- There should be a high hedge/ evergreens planted along south fence to maintain privacy of the residents in the adjacent houses

Tina, Canada

2 years agoComments:
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Jack, Canada

2 years agoComments:
I'm Not happy with the proposal! Too much density in the area already!